By: Steven Plaut Israel’s Im Tirtzu student organization bills itself as the “Second Zionist Revolution.” Until a few weeks ago, that sounded like youthful bravado. But the group has raised eyebrows – and hackles – with its unprecedented grand slam in the Israeli media against the New Israel Fund. Led by Hebrew University graduate student […]

by MK Danny Danon (Israelnationalnews.com) A recent report claimed that the well-known NGO the New Israel Fund and 16 of its grantees provided the bulk of the testimony that resulted in the anti-Israel Goldstone Report. In light of these accusations I formally requested a public inquiry into the funding of this organization. I did so, […]

BY CAROLINE GLICK Israel’s is the only government that can force the rest of the world to recognize that Abbas is not an ally. Fahmi Shabaneh is an odd candidate for dissident status. Shabaneh is a Jerusalemite who joined the Palestinian Authority’s General Intelligence Service in 1994. Working for PA head Mahmoud Abbas and GIS […]

by Lori Lowenthal Marcus Several news stories recently covered what was cast as a diplomatic faux pas by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. The implication was that Ayalon should apologize for not meeting with visiting members of congress for what, it was suggested, was an act of hostility towards their host, J Street, an […]

The Associated Press reports: “Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their targets and struck house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.” Those twelve Afghans are, of course, civilians, a word the report omits in the lead, […]

by Lori Lowenthal Marcus (Israelnationalnews.com) The “new,” “progressive” voice of the “pro-peace and pro-Israel” lobby known as J Street has had its “pro-Israel” label questioned by many observers, and even some of its own have shed that label. J Street has now also revealed it doesn’t keep its word to trusting Jewish organizations. On Thursday, […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Israeli-Arabs in Tel Aviv-Jaffa don’t want Israeli Jews moving in to ‘their’ neighborhood – and spent the weekend spray-painting messages to that effect around town. Among the graffiti warnings were, “Jaffa is not Hebron,” “Jaffa for Jaffans,” “Settlers Out!” and “Enough of Settlers!” Tel Aviv-Jaffa is within the borders of the […]

by David Lev (Israelnationalnews.com) IDF troops foiled a stabbing attack by a terrorist in Hevron late Friday, shooting an Arab who rushed at soldiers brandishing a large knife. The attack came as soldiers of the Shimshon brigade patrolled near a large mosque in the city. The soldiers noticed an Arab brandishing a knife, screaming anti-Israel […]

Theodore Herzl (in 1900) and David Ben Gurion (in 1947) did not subordinate their vision and long-term strategy to tenuous demographic constraints: A Jewish minority of 8% and 33% respectively between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Their defiance of odds was responsible for the 1948 establishment of the Jewish State. In 2010, there is […]